C5C4C3C2Part 5A company's name

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C5

Pt. 5 power to apply (with modifications) conferred (E.W.S.) (1.12.2013) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (c. 7), ss. 4(1)(2)(b), 8(2); S.I. 2013/2936, art. 2

C4

Pt. 5 power to apply (with modifications) conferred (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), ss. 135, 154 (with Sch. 5)

C3

Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))

Chapter 1General requirements

Permitted characters etc

I1C657Permitted characters etc

1

The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations—

a

as to the letters or other characters, signs or symbols (including accents and other diacritical marks) and punctuation that may be used in the name of a company registered under this Act; and

b

specifying a standard style or format for the name of a company for the purposes of registration.

2

The regulations may prohibit the use of specified characters, signs or symbols when appearing in a specified position (in particular, at the beginning of a name).

C13

A company may not be registered under this Act by a name that consists of or includes anything that is not permitted in accordance with regulations under this section.

4

Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.

5

In this section “specified” means specified in the regulations.